[Mailman-Developers] MHonArc integration

[Anand Kumria]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:49:58PM -0800, Prakash Subramanian wrote:
> I am trying to use a simple method to include MHonArc archiver enabled 
> with monthly archive functionality.  I found your script that does, but 
> I am not sure how to use it.

Hi Prakash,

Actually you aren't the first person to mention that to me. I think you
are probably the 10th or so; and since that is a double digit it is time
to write some docs.

> I tried replacing ~mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py with your 
> MHonArc.py but it gives the following error message.
> 
> ~mailman/bin/arch mylist
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/arch", line 43, in ?
>    from Mailman.Archiver.HyperArch import HyperArchive, Article
> ImportError: cannot import name Article

You don't actually want to do that instead you want to replace the
import directive. MHonArc doesn't imlpement the Article class -- I
haven't looked at it in detail to see if it is required.

> The method Article is been used by various script and I am not able to 
> get rid of this .
> 
> Please advice on how to use your script.

Well, nowl  that MHonArc is managing the archiving I've been using it
rather than the interface mailman provides. If you take a look at 
<URL: http://www.progsoc.org/~wildfire/code/>, that is the latest
version of the code and some setup instructions.

You may also find the set_list_pass script useful too.

> 
> Another question,  why
> 

I didn't find the pipermail archiving very appealing; I tried shell
scripts and they were a bit fragile. So I nutted this out over a number
of train trips to/from work.

Regards,
Anand

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